<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Puangchomphu Rammuang</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mekongictcamp@gmail.com">mekongictcamp@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 7:25 AM<br>Subject: Mekong ICT Camp 2015 is now open for Application!!!!!<br>To: <br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14pt">Apply now!</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14pt"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14pt">Mekong ICT Camp 2015:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14pt"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt">Social Innovation through Information, Communication, and Technology:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><strong><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">A Hands-on Workshop on Social Innovation through Information, Communication, and Technology Capacity Development for Independent Media, Community Health Workers, and Civil Society Organizations in Mekong Sub-region.</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><strong><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"> </span></i></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span lang="EN-CA">Activity Name: Mekong ICT Camp 2015</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span lang="EN-CA">Date: June 7-12, 2015</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span lang="EN-CA">Place/Country: Collage of Innovation Thammasat University, Pattaya, Thailand</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><b><span lang="EN-CA">WHO CAN APPLY?</span></b></p><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA">All developers, journalists, development workers and social workers are welcome</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Participants are welcome from EVERY Mekong-region country, and elsewhere</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Around 60 participants will be selected from the Mekong sub-region, with others from outside the region</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><b><span lang="EN-CA">WHAT IS THE EVENT’S FOCUS?</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span lang="EN-CA">This workshop will focus mainly on already existing developmental projects in Mekong countries, trying to solve data and technological problems related to issues such as:</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Environmental and social impacts of development projects such as dams, mines, oil and gas, road construction or land concessions</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Health, education, civil rights and others.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><b><span lang="EN-CA">HOW IS THE EVENT ORGANIZED?</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span lang="EN-CA">The workshop brings together development workers, journalists and others who are looking for solutions to their data problems. These problems can involve data collection, analysis or visualisation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span lang="EN-CA">These “project initiators/problem owners” present their problem to software developers, hardware makers and data experts, who, if interested, will work with to find tech solutions for their projects.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><b><span lang="EN-CA">WHAT IS THE COST?</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span lang="EN-CA">For those from the Mekong-region: we will sponsor all your travel, accommodation and program costs, but we ask for a contribution of USD50 from each participant. This sponsorship is available for participants from the Mekong sub-region (Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Yunnan; China), including those who are originally from elsewhere but currently working on projects that related to the development of the Mekong region and its people.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span lang="EN-CA">Participants from outside the Mekong-region: Limited numbers of PARTIAL sponsorship (camp fee and accommodation, but not travel cost) are available for those outside Mekong Region.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><b><span lang="EN-CA">HOW DO I PREPARE?</span></b></p><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Development workers, journalists and others with data and technical problems to solve should bring descriptions of those problems, resources, reports, datasets, equipment or anything else that will help others understand and solve the problem</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA">We want participants to lead discussions. All participants can consider bringing problems, ideas, stories, tools, equipment or websites to present to others.</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA">A computer is required in most of the hand-on sessions. Participants are advised to bring their personal laptop computer with them. The camp will not provide computer to participants.</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA">If you have camera, video recorder, voice recorder, wifi router, Raspberry Pi, Arduino or any other equipment, please bring them, as you may find it useful and interesting to use them during the workshop.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Application deadline is April 5, 2015. Apply here </span><a href="http://mekongict.org/" target="_blank">http://mekongict.org/</a></b></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Team Secretary</div><div>MekongICTcamp</div><div><br></div><div>Thai Fund Foundation</div><div>2044/23 New Petchburi Road, Bangkapi, Huaykwang, Bangkok 10310</div><div>Tel. 66-318-3959, 66-2-314-4112-3 ext. 102</div><div>Fax <a href="tel:66%202718%201850" value="+6627181850" target="_blank">66 2718 1850</a></div><div>Email <a href="mailto:mekongictcamp@gmail.com" target="_blank">mekongictcamp@gmail.com</a> </div></div><div><div><br></div><div>Join Mekong ICT on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MekongICT" target="_blank"><font color="#3366ff">Facebook</font></a></div><div><br><div>Log on to our website<a href="http://mekongict.org/" target="_blank"> MekongICT camp</a></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><span></span><span></span><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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